Photos of five men of the "Best" railroad crew in the US
Army in North Africa, 4-13-1943, all named on the back.
Photo is by or from Pfc. Jack W. Smith who was from Dennison, Ohio, and who served in a US Army railroad unit in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France in WWII.

Kevin writes … Thank you for posting the info and photos of
the 723rd Railway Operating Battalion on the blog.I stumbled onto it, and was interested---

In the HQ photo the Lt. McClooney seated in the front row
center—he was my uncle.James E.
McClooney.He now rests at Arlington
National Cemetery here in Washington DC.

I heard many stories during visits to my uncle, while
growing up as a child in the 1960s about the 723rd and his work in the Railway
Operating Battalion.At that time he was
a civilian instructor at the Army Transportation School at Ft. Eustis

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